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Greek Hijacks Plane to Cairo
CAIRO, U.A.R.—Egyptian
authorities today named
Greek national George
Flamoridcs as the hijacker
of an Olympic Airways plane
seized over the eastern
Mediterranean this morning.
A civil aviation spokesman said police were questioning Flamoridcs who, the
airliner's pilot said, forced
him to fly to Cairo at gunpoint.
The 95 passengers, who
included 27 women, seven
children, and six army officers, were taken off the
plane and were being looked
after by Egyptian authorities.
The pilot told Egyptian
police that the hijacker fired
a shot over his head when he
tried to call Athens by radio.
The pilot said the bullet
went through the cabin window.
Strict security precautions
were in force when the
plane, a Douglas DC-6B hijacked on a flight from
Crete to Athens, landed at
Cairo.
-L^uiffLS

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Greek Hijacks Plane to Cairo
CAIRO, U.A.R.—Egyptian
authorities today named
Greek national George
Flamoridcs as the hijacker
of an Olympic Airways plane
seized over the eastern
Mediterranean this morning.
A civil aviation spokesman said police were questioning Flamoridcs who, the
airliner's pilot said, forced
him to fly to Cairo at gunpoint.
The 95 passengers, who
included 27 women, seven
children, and six army officers, were taken off the
plane and were being looked
after by Egyptian authorities.
The pilot told Egyptian
police that the hijacker fired
a shot over his head when he
tried to call Athens by radio.
The pilot said the bullet
went through the cabin window.
Strict security precautions
were in force when the
plane, a Douglas DC-6B hijacked on a flight from
Crete to Athens, landed at
Cairo.
-L^uiffLS